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According to Menzies, the discoveries include Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Antarctica, and the northern coast of Greenland. The knowledge of these discoveries has been lost, Menzies argues, because the Mandarin (China)|mandarins (administrators) of the Emperor's court took a strict line on new adventures after lightning (which was considered a sign of divine anger) burnt down the newly constructed Forbidden City. A year later, his successor (son), the Hongxi Emperor, then forbade making new voyages, and his advisors destroyed all accounts of Zheng He's voyages. The 1421 theory is partially influenced by Charles Hapgood's theory. Menzies bases his theory on Chinese shipwrecks, old maps, surviving Chinese literature from the time, and accounts written by navigators like Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan. Menzies also believes that unanswered structures like the Newport Tower (Rhode Island)|Newport Tower and the Bimini Road were constructed by Zheng He's men. Maps Image:KangnidoMap.jpg|thumb|300px|The Kangnido map (1402) describes the entirety of the Old World, from Europe and Africa in the west, to Korea and Japan in the east, with an oversized China in the middle. Several maps were used by Menzies:
Other evidence Among his specific evidence are DNA studies showing "recent" DNA flow from China, maps which apparently show foreign lands before the Europeans discovered them, and a drawing of an armadillo in a book published in China in 1430, along with veritable mountains of circumstantial evidence. His book is considered by many experts to not be founded in fact. One Chinese expert pronounced the theory "pure fiction". However, some academicists, like Dr. Sir John Elliot (Oxford University) do believe the theory. Menzies modifies his theory from time to time based on newly discovered evidence. His new findings are usually bigger, bolder, and much less traditional than his previous ones. For example, he now claims some of Zheng He's ships travelled as far as Spain. He also now alleges that the Chinese records of the voyages were never, in fact, destroyed, and are waiting to be found.
Debunking sites
Category:1421 Category:History of China Category:Exploration Category:Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact Category:Pseudoscience Category:Pseudoarchaeology Category:Pseudohistory This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "1421 theory".
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